The Classical Text Editor was designed to enable
scholars working on a critical edition or on a
text with commentary or translation to prepare a
camera-ready copy or electronic publication
without bothering much about making up and page
proofs. Its features, formed in continuous
discussion with editors using the program, meet
the practical needs of the scholar concerning
text constitution, entries to different apparatus
and updating them when the text has been changed,
as well as creating and redefining sigla. The
possibility to search for and visualise
manuscript constellations may be of considerable
help in detecting affiliations between sources.
It is the primary purpose of the Classical Text
Editor to do the automatable work which consumes
so much time and energy, and let the scholar
concentrate on scientific issues.